There are plenty of bootcamp grads across the companies I've worked and they all make 100k+ (and some are established senior engineers).
Like you are implying: status signaling from degree mills is pretty useless compared to actual competency.
Like you are implying: status signaling from degree mills is pretty useless compared to actual competency.
Whether or not that’s due to differences in education or purely signaling behavior is something I have yet to fully make up my mind about.
On one side you have people that managed to claw their way through the boot camp but didn't actually pick up any of the skills; they memorized enough to get through instead of actually learning stuff. On the other side, you have people that did learn but aren't confident in their skills and so flub the interview when their confidence gives out.
I've watched the latter happen on more than one occasion and I really wish I knew how to handle it as an interviewer.